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Metallica is that much legendary that even this episode didn't implode their legacy and career for good

Where's Napster now??

>>127144317
A literal paid streaming service.

>>127144317
SLSK

>>127144301
The first 3 albums will always be the greatest triplet run of metal albums; and the people who wrote them will always be total cunts. If NPCs want to keep throwing money at these washed out retards, then it's still better than listening to rap I guess.

>>127144384
>will always be total cunts
With the possible exception of Cliff.

>>127144384
>it's still better than listening to rap I guess.

>>127144264 (OP)
>makes big stink about le piracy
>winds up introducing how to get free music to millions of normies
He literally could've killed online music "piracy" if he just dealt with it quietly instead of turning it into a crusade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIIgxXiyU8

>>127144506
>Wearing a commie shirt while decrying sharing capital
*chefs kiss* also lol @ Daymon Wayans

>>127144264 (OP)
Yep. Napster. Lots to learn from this.

>>127144506
I didn't remember the specific Napster logos and mentions. It actually looks like an intentional advertisement. Even the last thing he says is a reminder of the brand name and a tagline that sounds exactly like a commercial.

>>127145297
Wouldn't surprise at this point if it really was a psyop by Lars to push people into downloading music by whining about it, then subsequently devaluing the entire medium.

Prior to the Napster shit, almost nobody outside of net savvy computer autists knew about "downloadable free music", then after the lawsuit, people just downloaded en masse, with only those who "stole" a handful of songs actually getting sued.

>>127144317>>127144317
>Where's Napster now??
I don't know, but they introduced me to piracy in the late 90s, and now, nearly 30 years later, I just don't pay for any digital content.
Thanks, Napster, for the thousands of dollars I haven't had to pay these greedy motherfuckers.

Was it stock?

>>127144264 (OP)
>HE FUCKING SHARED THE BAND

I SHARED YOUR ENTIRE SHITTY DISCOGRAPHY ON NAPSTER LARS. ALL OF IT. YOU'LL NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH I DESPISE YOU

i really don't know who still cares about this now. they're on virtually every digital platform out there nowadays.

>>127144264 (OP)
People made him out to be some kind of monster

>>127144264 (OP)
it's like, all the shots he had to take, what difference did he make?

>>127148380
The rest of the band actually seems like nice guys. Lars, however...

>>127148525
...............................................what. how old are you. Seriously buddy. Identify yourself.

>>127144301
>that much legendary
Holy ESL

>>127144264 (OP)
It's a lot of fun to pirate their discography. And I love them so fucking much. They embody what makes Sabbath so good but then they experiment and make the occasional weird ass album with Lou Reed. LuLu is a masterpiece a perfect 10, so is St. Anger. One is their best song, I pirate so I can save money for rare OG vinyl prints front row tickets and merchandise like a real supporter. Piracy only expanded my mind for it allowed me to spend a fat chunk of time educating myself on music history instead of only seeing a tiny sliver of what's out there. It's essentially the same thing as record digging except you don't need to purchase an invisible thing. It's all 1s and 0s bleeps and bloops, put it on a plastic disc or vinyl record and if someone steals those physicals that's theft

>>127148550
>not having the bowl as his mouth

Such a waste.

>>127148697
That's is in respects a very intradasting piece of writing and respects that.

You came and you said a lot.

Their not coming back to my town.

I'm not driving to podunkville YANKEE / HICK town to hear those guys tell us how we should sing.

COME TO MY TOWN OR FUCK OFF.

If the shit doesn't stop, i'm calling the local judge.

>>127144264 (OP)
he's still wrong today

>>127144384
>The first 3 albums will always be the greatest triplet run of metal albums

What about Maiden, Sabbath, Kiss, AC/DC?

I agreed with Lars at the time, it was easy too because I had 33.6 kbps modem and 1.4 gb hard drive, it wasn't really feasible to download mass music
a few years later we got high speed internet and i had a cd burner and I pirated EVERYTHING
like one song by Rush? 27 albums ripped, tyvm no money for you

>>127144506
>He literally could've killed online music "piracy" if he just dealt with it quietly instead of turning it into a crusade.
Literally all he had to do was trot out some unknown opening tier bands point a them and say something like like
>Hey, I have like a billion dollars so this doesn't really effect me in the long run, but these guys are working hard and they won't have a music business to make it in if this keeps happening
and he would have looked like a hero who was looking out for the little guys, but his ego couldn't allow it to be about anyone but him

>Sees music being pirated
>doesn't chimp out like Lars
>Plans their tour based on areas with the most downloading
>Singer flies the plane
They were always better, weren't they?

>>127150483
Only two of those bands are metal and neither of them topped Metallica's 3, but that's just like my opinion man; I'm sure plenty of other people have different taste and think otherwise. Nothing wrong with any of those bands, except the last two weren't metal.

>>127150674
>repeating myself

Soz I'm high

>>127144264 (OP)
His hair took a napster

>>127150605
>3 guitar players because we feel like it
>nun u cud do Kirby Hammett
metal

>>127150605
The egg throwing was brilliant. As much as I dislike Sharon, Bruce is also a giant twat, and she redeemed herself a little bit by making him seethe.

>>127150674
Aye, respect your opinion but disagree.

>YA HEAR ABOUT THESE FOCKERS ON THE INTERNET?

>>127150870
i wish there was somewhere where we could talk about funhaus

>>127148634
you're monolingual.

>>127150747
No matter what you think of Sharon, bjectively it was a dick move for Bruce to crack disses about Ozzy onstage while Ozzy was fucking taking him out on tour. Just really ungrateful.

>>127144264 (OP)
It's objectively true that mass free downloading totally upended the music industry as we knew it forever, and that a lot of artists make less money now for their success than they would've made for the same success and recognition back then as a result. On the other hand Metallica were already multimillionaires, and they not only went after Napster as a company but delivered a list of usernames of people that downloaded Metallica's music. At that point you're going directly after the individuals downloading which is bullshit. Not wanting someone to build a company profiting off pirating your music is one thing but don't try to get random broke music fans in trouble.

I think the bands who suffered the most from the upheaval of the old music industry certainly weren't the mega-successes like Metallica, nor very obscure artists (who actually benefited significantly from more exposure). Rather it was the mid-sized artists, those who broke out of the musical underground and barely made it to a major label but didn't quite crack the mainstream, that probably lose out the most from the pithy payments of today's streaming services.

>>127144264 (OP)
What, no warning, no second download?

>>127150605
still can't believe (Ja)Nick Gers is a real person

>>127144264 (OP)
I still can't forgive him for this.

>>127144317
You're looking at em, asshole

>>127147436
>I MEAN HELLO??

>>127147436
>>127152993
Your class action lawsuit....it's...I wanna choose my words carefully here.....it's a bit stock.

>>127152236
musicians never really made that much off of album sales unless the album went 10x platinum. their millions were made from ticket/t-shirt sales

>>127144264 (OP)
>NAPSTER... LE BAD

>>127144264 (OP)
I spot the jew in the sun

>>127144264 (OP)
It's so interesting to learn who this pissed off.

>>127144264 (OP)
cliff switch seats with lars

>>127144264 (OP)
Lars was right

>>127144264 (OP)
You're a fucking loser, you know that right. Eat shit and die. Your mama said that.

>>127150870
>MY NAMES JAMES HETFIELD FROM METALLICA AND I LOVE BEER AND MY BUDDY LARS
>YEA-E YEAH H-EAHHAA

>>127153879
t. Lars

MY name is pussy beater supreme. Please calm down. I have been elected the mayor of New York City , home of the tallest buildings in the world, and i think there's a really big fucking Macy's or something, Niggas south of us have been stealing our music. I'm coming tell my mama what yall been doing to me. Especially my wife. I'm in Metallica. and we comin.

They often said they didn't do that for themselves but for smaller artists who'd be literally starving if not for royalties, Jaymz said that lots of musicians would come to them and say: "What you're guys are doing is pretty great but we can't do that ourselves, our audience will crush us", Metallica themselves relied heavily in piracy in the early days with bootlegs, demo tapes and stuff, that was what made them big enough to release their first record in the early thrash scene when no record label in US was willing to.

>>127152175
Yeah, that didn't happen though, did it?

>>127150605
band with absolutely no balls

Cofounder of the best metal band right there.

>>127150483
Kiss and ACDC aren't metal.

>>127155644
this
people need to excuse Lars' behavior during the Napster era, he and his band gave us pure metal kino

>>127144264 (OP)
>YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD DRUMMING SKILLS, WOULD YOU? NO. NEITHER DID I."

>>127155657
Plus, their whole discog's available on Spotify right now, so, who really won, and does it even matter?

>>127154822
>Ozzy noted that Iron Maiden’s bassist, Steve Harris, apologized for Dickinson’s behavior at the final show, suggesting some acknowledgment within the band of inappropriate conduct